Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-15
STRIKERS IN THE COLD.
THE NEW HANDS ON THE DOCKS
NOT TO BE CAST ADRIFT.

Old Men Taken Back In ~ Body at Some
of the Piers-The Firemen on Some
of the COastwiss steamers Frustrated
I'm a Plan TO rike bya Threat of Ar
rest for Mutiny.
New YORK, Feb. 14.-An attempt to
cause trouble among the firemen and coal
passers on some of the coastwise lines
yesterday and the day previous proved a
failure. The coal passers and iremen on
the Ward line pier struck just as the
steamer Saratoga was throwing off her
lines. The men, however, had signed
ships articles, ana were therefore liable
to be proceeded against for mutiny. This
measure being threatened, they returned
to work in preference to being placed in
irons. The vessel then proceeded to sea,
three hours late. The firemen on the
Clyde line steamer Yemassee also left
their vessel as the whistle was blowing
for the boat to leave her dock. Men from
two other boats were promptly put on
board, and the delay was not more than
one hour. On the Mallory dock four fire.
men quit work on the steamer Carondelet.
NO BIG RUSH.
There was not much OF rush on the
part of the strikers to get back to work
to-day for thes reason that many of the
companies having piers along the river
front have refused to take back the old
hands. The Harlem railroad and New
York City and Northern and Pennsyl-
vania companies have given orders that
none OF the new hands shall be turned
away as long as they are competent to do
the work, and refused to reinstate the
old employees. On the other hand, at
some piers the strikers have gone back
IN body, while at many others the old
hands are being taken back quietly and
Individually, and at still others, where the
strikers are known TO have
been such, they are barred out.
and strangers are taken on who
prove by their work to be skilled laborers
and to be of those who could not get en-
plOyment where they were known. One
firm of stevedores, who employed 800
men, have taken back all their old men in
one BODY.
IN BROOKLYN.
A similar condition of affairs prevails
in Brooklyn, and the coal handlers and
coal cart drivers there have gone back to
work.
The $500 employees OF the Higgins car
pet factory, In New York, went to work
to-day. They struck against scab coal
over a week ago.
In Jersey City the striking longshore-
men of the Inman and Red Star steam
ship lines returned in a body to OBTAIN
work, and stated their terms. They were
informed that they were not wanted at
any price.
The Erie and Pennsylv ania railroad
freight handlers returned in like manner
and received similar treatment.
THE ONLY ORIGINAL STILL OUT.
The coal handlers on the docks In New
Jersey, who were the original strikers,
are still strikers. They have better stay
ing powers than those who tried TO help
them. The first coal that has been ham
died at Elizabethpo since the strike be-
gan was handled this morning. The old
hands refused the offer OF the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation and Central Railroad
companies to go back at zoe. per
hour. A steamer with men
from New York arrived to-day,
and a small force began loading coal on
the Lehigh Company's docks. The coal
was frozen solid Ia the cars and progress
was slow. The strikers keep away from
the docks and no violence Is feared. An
efigy bearing the inscription, "Hang all
scabs," was suspended from II bridge
near the docks.